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DOTTY What I tell you? That courthouse statue, Confederate soldier? You see the TV News last night? EMMIE We ain’t got a TV. DOTTY Found the headless body in Choo Choo Bayou, wrapt in a flag, in the muddy Stars and Bars. EMMIE Anybody said what happened to the head? DOTTY Can’t find the head. They’s agitated, “Johnny Reb’s decapitated!” Dredged the bayou, lakefront too, trawlers, spotlights, minesweepers— EMMIE Dang! DOTTY Oh uh huh. The whole shebang. Bloodhounds bayin, makin noise— They say it was “hoodlums” done it. They mean colored boys. EMMIE But they ain’t said who— DOTTY Nope. Not a clue. Tell you what: whoever did it— Good for them! I hope they burnt it in a trash incinerator, fed it to an alligator. ugly thing. Ugly thing! The South’s Defender. Hey! Cracker Joe, Lee surrendered! The thing is over, baby! Dead! Don’t cry! And kiss that huge ugly head goodbye. EMMIE Yeah. Let it be, for goodness sakes. Heads go missin. Them’s the breaks. Stakes ain’t high… DOTTY My eye they ain’t. They’ll keep lookin. Some of them is vexed as snakes and trouble comin. EMMIE And someone gone and killed that man that crazy man who killed the President, right on TV! Saw that picture in the paper, shot by a bullet, look like it hurt. We ain’t got a TV set, not yet. We only got a radio. CAROLINE OK, go! Time to bring them pancakes out! They dips them in the applesauce. Take the tray out, don’t be spillin. Carve the goose and let’s be trekkin. [Thanks to Michael for lyrics] Back to main page: Caroline, or Change Lyrics
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